[Marxism-Thaxis] Left-Wing Communism in Great Britain

2009-01-05 Thread Charles Brown
Left-Wing Communism in Great Britain There is no Communist Party in Great Britain as yet, but there is a fresh, broad, powerful and rapidly growing communist movement among the workers, which justifies the best

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Worried German bourgeoisie

2009-01-05 Thread dogangoecmen
This is very interesting and being discussed in Germany for more than one year. What I find more interesting in this connection is what Roland Koch, the temporary prime minister of Hessen and one of the leading figures?of Christian Democrat Party (CDU), said:?he said that Germany must come out

[Marxism-Thaxis] Owl of Minerva: looking back at a labor era in Detroit

2009-01-05 Thread Charles Brown
The end of an era for labor in Detroit was made obvious by the loss of the Detroit newspaper workers' strike. http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/1998-May/009617.html INTERVIEW WITH DETROIT NEWSPAPER STRIKER BARB INGALLS [Editor's note: On July 13, 1995, some 2,500 employees of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lenin philosophy blog

2009-01-05 Thread Ralph Dumain
More comments from Riggins: (3) There now follow a few pages where Lenin defends the objectivity of time and space against Mach who thinks that Newton's views may not actually be applicable. Here Lenin seems to equate Newton's notion of ABSOLUTE time and space with the materialist view the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Lenin philosophy blog

2009-01-05 Thread Charles Brown
Yes, but here is a question to think about. Why is this not a dialectical unity of opposites, a synthesis of a thesis (idealism) and antithesis (materialism), making Kantianism a higher philosophy than either of the others? Why is dialectical materialism so hostile to Kantianism rather than

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why a Philosophy of the Natural Sciences is Needed

2009-01-05 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain This article is shockingly awful and an unfortunate product of CP Soviet miseducation, and a further contribution to same. ^^^ CB: No this article is very much needed. Your comment is more evidence

[Marxism-Thaxis] American steel industry needs $1 trillion bailout

2009-01-05 Thread Charles Brown
NY Times, January 2, 2009 Steel Industry, in Slump, Looks to U.S. Stimulus By LOUIS UCHITELLE The steel industry, having entered the recession in the best of health, is emerging as a leading indicator of what lies ahead. As steel production goes — and it is now in collapse — so will go the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Worried German bourgeoisie

2009-01-05 Thread Charles Brown
Louis Proyect (posted to LBO-talk by SA) [From an interview with Hasso Plattner, co-founder of SAP] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,598945,00.htmlhttp://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,598945,00.html [...] SPIEGEL: Sometimes it's a nasty game. In 2005,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lenin philosophy blog

2009-01-05 Thread farmela...@juno.com
-- Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote: (11) Lenin chose physics to illustrate his theories. He could have picked any number of sciences had he so wished. I should also note the conditions of 1908 are not unique. Marxism itself, as a scientific world view, is going through a

[Marxism-Thaxis] Thomas Riggins' blog (1)

2009-01-05 Thread Charles Brown
Early Christianity as a manifestation of the Communist ideal is a rather simplistic conception of the nature of Christianity. See for example, THE MIND OF THE BIBLE-BELIEVER by Edmund G. Cohen. ^^^ CB: True. In case you don't think Engels also held a more complex understanding of the nature

[Marxism-Thaxis] Super Capitalism, Super Imperialism and Monetary Imperialism

2009-01-05 Thread Charles Brown
Lenin is dead, and hasn't had a chance to update his work lately. CJ CB: Most of Lenin's concepts from 1916 don't need updating. Monopoly, financial oligarchy cartels. financial sector dominance and parasitism of industrial capital, objective laws or tendencies of capitalism apply

[Marxism-Thaxis] Good look at crisis in Gaza

2009-01-05 Thread Charles Brown
http://pww.org/article/articleview/14219/ Gaza crisis: challenge and opportunity for Obama to turn the page toward peace Archive http://pww.org/article/archive/0/ - Daily Onlinehttp://pww.org/article/archive/266/ Author: Susan Webb http://pww.org/article/author/view/247 People's Weekly World

[Marxism-Thaxis] Why a Philosophy of the Natural Sciences is Needed

2009-01-05 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain Here is a quick list of some commonly accepted falsehoods or nonsensical assertions: 1. The logic of the Marxist analysis of social development is based on the philosophical system of dialectical and historical materialism. Dialectical and historical materialism together

[Marxism-Thaxis] More spectre of socialism from the right

2009-01-05 Thread Charles Brown
Speaking of... http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/30/rnc-pushes-unprecedented-criticism-of-bailouts/ Tuesday, December 30, 2008 EXCLUSIVE: RNC draft rips Bush's bailouts Ralph Z. Hallow http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/ralph-z-hallow/ ( Contact

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Crash of 2008 and Historical Materialism (2)

2009-01-05 Thread Waistline2
I. Capitalism is not the meaning of industrial process. The industrial system is founded on machinery driven by mechanical motion. Each expansion of the quantitative boundary of the electro-mechanical process further revolutionized the productive forces on the basis of mechanical motion

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Crash of 2008 and Historical Materialism (3)

2009-01-05 Thread Waistline2
II. The semi-conductor is to industrial society, what the spinning machine and steam engine was to manufacture. The semi-conductor and associated technology, expresses a leap is in progress, (understanding leap to mean a transition), from an industrial society founded on mechanical

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Super Capitalism, Super Imperialism and Monetary Imperialism

2009-01-05 Thread CeJ
9. Super Capitalism, Super Imperialism and Monetary Imperialism (Charles Brown) CB: Most of Lenin's concepts from 1916 don't need updating. Monopoly, financial oligarchy cartels. financial sector dominance and parasitism of industrial capital, objective laws or tendencies of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lenin philosophy blog

2009-01-05 Thread CeJ
5. Re: Lenin philosophy blog (farmela...@juno.com) A little later on, Soviet psychologists initiated attempts at developing their own psychological theories which they hoped would be consistent with basic Marxist principles such as the materialist conception of history and Lenin's analysis of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Crash of 2008 and Historical Materialism (5)

2009-01-05 Thread Waistline2
V. Speculation But the middle ages had handed down two distinct forms of capital, which mature in the most different economic social formations, and which before the era of the capitalist mode of production, are considered as capital quand même — [all the same] usurer’s capital and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lenin philosophy blog

2009-01-05 Thread CeJ
And see: http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/crisis/index.htm CJ ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Super Capitalism, Super Imperialism and Monetary Imper...

2009-01-05 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 1/6/2009 12:00:59 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, jann...@gmail.com writes: 9. Super Capitalism, Super Imperialism and Monetary Imperialism (Charles Brown) CB: Most of Lenin's concepts from 1916 don't need updating. Monopoly, financial oligarchy cartels. financial

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Lenin philosophy blog

2009-01-05 Thread CeJ
And see: http://www.marxists.org/archive/elkonin/works/1971/stages.htm Also important to note that Piaget, in attempting to work out a description of the 'sciences of man', integrates Marxism into his system. CJ -- Japan Higher Education Outlook http://japanheo.blogspot.com/

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Super Capitalism, Super Imperialism and Monetary Imperialism

2009-01-05 Thread CeJ
An industrial capital formation as a historically distinct sector of capital no longer exist. I am not aware of one single economist of note that speaks of an industrial sector of capital. Not one. The existence of Chrysler, Ford or GM does not mean a sector of capital called industrial

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Super Capitalism, Super Imperialism and Monetary Imperialism

2009-01-05 Thread CeJ
This paper from 1997 does look prescient though--but then again I was thinking the same sort of things in 1997 having seen Japan's crash and then the run up to the Asian crisis (which was precipitated by currency bets by the big players like Soros).